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Have you ever gotten lost in the Internet, swallowed by the constant updates on Twitter and Facebook for hours, when you only meant to be on for a few minutes? This is a constant battle in our society and technology changes and our use of it increases. It is becoming a bigger issue every day, and now it affects one of our basics psychological needs: sleep. Though I concede with Brooke Gladstone, author of “The Influencing Machines” that we can adapt to technology as it grows, I still insist that some issues that arise with technology are bigger than Gladstone portrays and we need to find solutions for some of the bigger problems that technology creates, especially when it disturbs a basic psychological need.

In monitoring my behavior, I will buy a calendar and a journal and write an X on everyday of the calendar in which I accomplished my scheduled time of sleep. In the journal, I will record what I did wrong on the days I didn’t accomplish the task of sleeping at the scheduled time. I will buy the calendar this weekend and I already have a journal. I will begin this plan at the same time I begin having a timer for my scheduled bed time which is on July 17th. A reward for this intention will be a record of all the calendars I’ve used in reaching this goal, it’ll show how far I’ve come.

I’ve been thinking about sleep ever since reading Maria Konnikova’s fascinating, three-part series for The New Yorker on sleep. And then my wife, Crystal, read the series, which got us both thinking about it, and talking about it, and experimenting with it.

Better sleep hygiene is associated with the right performance behaviors that contribute to the body’s natural sleep wake patterns and enhance a restful sleep (Mairs & Mullan, 2015). For my case, before I adopted the sleep log, I wasn’t getting eight hours of sleep. Therefore, I experienced a reduced mental, emotional and physical wellbeing (Mairs & Mullan, 2015). I knew that I had poor sleeping patterns, sleep quality and sleep hygiene since I had to compensate for the lost sleep on the weekend. Also, while at school, I had to take short naps in between classes as a way to make up for the lost sleep.

FitSleep uses state-of-the-art technology to track and monitor sleeping patterns, gently lulling the user into a deep sleep

The amount of sleep was self-reported by participants using a sleep diary. In the sleep diary participants would note the time they got into bed, how long it took them to fall asleep, the number and duration of awakenings during the night, what time they awoke, and what time they got out of bed. Misinformation or false memory was evaluated in a few different phases. In the first phase the participants took part in a

In the past few years, cell phones and tablets have begun to take over people’s lives. Cell phones hold our entire lives on them, from what time we wake up in the morning to directions to get everywhere. People spend the majority of their lives on their cell phones, texting, tweeting, or even just playing games. Not only do these devices effect our social lives, but they also affect how we sleep at night and how much sleep we get. Sleep is very important in maintaining homeostasis and proper health, in order to function properly, “healthy adults need between 7-9 hours of sleep each night” (helpguide). If a person does not get the amount of sleep- they need, then they will become groggy and less efficient at work or school.

She downloaded the electronic application, "Pillow," an application available on iPhone that tracks your quality of sleep. Each time you wake up a report is available for her to view that shows when she was at the deepest sleep and when she was in the lightest sleep and for how long. Client said that when she started using this application, it showed that her sleep cycles varied and that she wasn’t getting enough sleep. Client stated that having a visual to show her how well she was sleeping was a good incentive to use the sleep aids and to try to achieve a better and deeper sleep overall. Client states that now her sleep cycles vary much less and she usually doesn’t wake up during her

Doing the sleeping inventory evaluation, I learned that a lot of the things I do daily that affect my sleep. An example would be, not getting enough exercise. Being physically active during the day will make you more tired at the end of the day which makes it easier to sleep and much faster! Something I do every night before I go to bed, is staying up late on my phone. You shouldn’t be on your phone, watching tv or reading a book in bed, because it can make it harder to calm yourself to fall asleep because you are focusing, I will give myself an hour to unwind before going to sleep.

Sleep is a subjective phenomenon in which each individual is unique with respect to their interpretation of what normal or good sleep means to them. There has been continuous debate concerning what normal sleep means and how it is defined. It is important to understand that the physiology of sleep is constantly evolving in many individuals. For instance, sleep patterns change as one ages. While children have a greater ratio of NREM sleep in comparison to adults, adults demonstrate a greater ratio of REM sleep, compared to children. In addition to age differences, gender has also been shown to demonstrate differences in sleep, most notably in adults. For example, it has been shown that women tend to have a higher percentage of slow wave sleep (SWS) than men. Nevertheless, it is still unclear what determines the definition of normal sleep (1). A multitude of methods and tools have been created to measure normal sleep, both subjective and objective. This includes questionnaires, diaries,

To record my behavior each day, I used an Editor 's’ Choice application called ‘Sleep as Android’ by the Urbandroid Team on the Google Play Store. The application does not require me to record data manually everyday because it has sleep phase detection. This is an optimal way to record sleep because it does not have inaccuracy as a source of error. It is not possible to accurately record data immediately before sleep manually, therefore, the application detection function solves this problem. In addition, it also has sleep statistic, which includes data for: duration, deep sleep percent, cycles, snoring detection and noise detection. The application also takes in account sleep deficiency and sleep patterns to help improve the sleeping duration as my goal for behavior change. As a light sleeper, I tend to wake up in the middle of the night, therefore, the snoring and noise detection statistic is a great function to have for accurate recording of data.

This past May, Jawbone - a tech company that makes wearable activity trackers - released a study that monitored the sleep of tens of thousands of college students at over 100 college campuses, totalling 1.4 million nights of sleep.

Sleepnumber beds, the beds which you can alter the firmness or softness of the bed with a touch of a button, now use this technology in their SleepIQ feature. There are beds now designed with sensors inside them that send the data recorded each night to the owner’s phone. With this, you can receive even more accurate data points about your sleeping patterns because the bed’s sensors will cover more area than one minute phone can manage.

The application Sleep as Android, is a mobile health app that is run on the android platform. The objectives of this app is to function as a smart alarm with a variety of functions as well as a sleep tracker. The target users for this app are those who want to track their sleep cycles, or users who like to wake up gently in an optimal phase to feel more awake. These might include those with sleep issues such as trouble falling asleep, those with sleep apnea, and those who are interested in recording snoring or sleep talking. This app also targets users who have problems oversleeping.

There are four main factors that we have to focus on this project: the idea and features of “Wake Up UL;” researching and advertising process; safety and liability, patenting, competition, and product design; and a financial plan. In the introduction about idea and features of our alarm clock app: Wake Up UL, we have to make an online survey through http://surveymonkey.com and receive fewer responses than we expected, causing inaccuracy in analyzing the demand and need of the product as well as the UL community’s interest. Secondly, to make our product stand tall and look good in the current market of alarm clock apps, we need to create more powerful features that our app can offer such as multiple-choice questions, matching objects and remembering path-structure to turn the alarm off. Our app is a combination of features from separate current products, leading to potential copyright-conflicting issues. For our own, we only have ULL connected network where app users can download their classmates’ question banks and use it. Last but not least, to catch users’ attention, we have to come in with strong willingness and beneficial purposes of our app to serve the UL community. Our app serves the community not only as a usual but powerful alarm clock app that actually force users to wake up, but also as a new tool that can test users knowledge, build up their credits, build up their relationship, and strengthen our UL community. Catching users’ attention is the